senator whitehouse. >> thank you very much. thank you to all the witnesses. when i was a boy, john dean famously said there is a cancer on the president's. i think right now there is a cancer on our democracy, and it is dark money, and the forces who manipulate government through dark money. and i am adamant that we need to clean that up and pass disclosure legislation. so i want to make that point on the record. this is not that bill. we are trying to focus on not just eliminating dirty special interest influence in politics, but at least eliminate dirty foreign special interests in our politics. that really ought not to be too much to ask. and i can remember when i was floor managing the disclosed bill several years back. as we were on the floo a story emerged in the news about a corporation that had been set up out of no place, given $5 million, dumped the $5 minnesll into a political buyin a campaign, closed up shop, leaving only a lawyer behind who asserted attnent privilege and wouldn't talk about what had happened. so to this day nobody knows whose $5

whitehouse: of course. mr. alexander: for the information of senators, there will not be a vote tonight on the crapo-whitehouse amendment. we have at least one senator who is still studying the bill, but we believe that will be cleared up shortly. our goal would be to have votes tomorrow morning about 10:00 a.m. on the crapo-whitehouse amendment as well as an amendment by senator baldwin. and both of those are -- are subject to being approved by the leadership staff. only they can announce the scheduling of a vote. for the information of senators, there will not be a vote tonight and there will be a vote on at least one to three amendments tomorrow morning, hopefully about 10:00 a.m. senator crapo has spoken about the crapo-whitehouse amendment which is a pilot program for advanced reactor fuel. it is a very good idea. it is not reauthorizing a new program. it is not spending anymore money. it is allocating money for a very creative idea that senator whitehouse and senator crapo have come up with. i fully suppo

i will turn it over to senator whitehouse. whitehouse: i appreciate you holding this hearing. this is one of a series of firsts that we have accomplished in the subcommittee under your leadership. . am grateful for it some are not publicly known, but are significant. i just want to open with the word of appreciation to you. judiciary ining in april of facebook ceo mark zuckerberg testified before the judiciary committee about the new measure facebook was implementing to make sure foreign actors cannot buy political ads on facebook and interfere in u.s. elections. facebook, mr. zuckerberg told us, was going to require valid government identification and verify political ad purchaser. mr. zuckerberg conceded that facebook would not look kind a shell corporation. -- corporation to determine the actual identity of the actual buyer. actor merely funnels money into a domestic show corporation, which then purchases the ad, facebook would be none the wiser. federalately, the election commission and other finance campaign regulators are no better equipped to detect foreign identity lau

we're going to take one question, and then we've been joined by senator whitehouse and always great to see a great fighter who has been talking about this for many years. up in 30 seconds, as you are looking at what's the next area of potential litigation or where you see some of these kind of secretive actors beginning to ge, that the brearest of us paying attention to, what area would you say? i'm going to kick it off, because i really want to answer my own question. but i actually am quite concerned in areas around environmental protections. and i'm seeing just a number of decisions, particularly in state courts and areas like north carolina and michigan and areas where i just see this moneyed interest engaging and really hurting vulnerable communities. so that's my answer. but i'd love to hear what everybody else thinks. >> well, keeping in the same vein o what i've been talking about, i think we're going to see efforts to punish blue states for laws like the one at issue in besara at the department of health and human services. there's a new center for religious freedom or -- yeah

i will turn it over now to senator whitehouse. >> thank you very much for holding this hearing. this is one of a series of first that we have accomplished in the subcommittee under your leadership. i am grateful for it. some things are obvious like holding the first hearing on russian interference. some are not publicly known but are significant and i want to open with a word of appreciation to you. we had a hearing in april where mark zuckerberg testified before the judiciary committee about the new measures facebook was incrementing to make sure porn actors cannot five class on facebook and interfere in u.s. elections. facebook, mr. zuckerberg told us, was going to require valid identification and verify the political ad purchaser. however, in response my question, he conceded that facebook would not look behind a shell corporation to determine the actual identity of the actual buyer. if a foreign there merely funnel money into a domestic shell corporation, which then purchases the ad, facebook would be none the wiser. unfortunately, the federal election commission and other c

i can maybe go back after senator whitehouse. >> go ahead, senator whitehouse. first of all, i'd like to welcome ken wainstein back who has been a very distinguished public servant, and also a very helpful witness before this committee before. in addition to the csis kremlin playbook which is a very helpful and authoritative source on election and other interference by the kremlin, and kremlin trojan horse report, the atlanta council's parallel effort, there is a new report called moscow's gold, russian corruption in the uk, that was put out by the house of commons fornes affairs committee. i'd like to ask that that report be put into the record. and proceeding. and, i want to thank mr. wainstein for focusing on the botnet civil injunction legislation. senator graham and i have been working for a long time. we've been hoping to get it in the nda bill also. it seems pretty obvious to try to shut these damn things down in a way that has been proven to work. but what i want to talk about in my time is the problem of shell corporations. because, for all of the empha

joining us now, democratic senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island from the judiciary committee. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> do you plan to vote on any nominee the president puts forward in the coming months, no matter how qualified that individual might be. >> i think that plan will develop in the days ahead. we don't have a nominee yet. this is just today's news. what i would say is that it is extremely ironic that this announcement should come today which is the day that every single senate democrat got behind and filed a piece of legislation to rid our elections of dark money. the dark money problem was brought to us by five republican appointees on the supreme court and then in the garland gorsuch confrontation it turned around and dark money preserved the five on the supreme court. in all of this you could look forward to intense -- intense pressure by the big special interests behind the republican party to make sure that whoever the next supreme court justice is, they will continue to support the unlimited money an the dark money that have allowed bi

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i want to commend senator whitehouse for the good work. and your brand testimony you note how anonymous companies are the most critical. proposal is the most direct entity. it was put simply. it bans the problem. it's a direct attack on the vulnerability. it would do more than any other single proposal. three senior trump campaign officials. why is it important for them to be working on that. coming from the government and not having been in government too long ago. i know one of the concerns is always lack of candor. you can take steps submitted gate that risk. the indictment of 13 russian individuals on three companies. he sold bank account numbers to russians involved in this plat. how console console and bank accounts be used to allow foreign nationals be allowed to use that in our elections. >> still and bank accounts are one more layer very simple and the additional note just makes it that much more difficult to follow the money. senator whitehouse and i in august of 2016 sent a letter to the dead chairman oversight subcommittee. exp

whitehouse: yeah. i suspect it would be pretty hard for the united states attorney giuliani to imagine what he was going after anthony solano for years, as anthony solano's lawyers said, it has been a year, time to wrap it up. i just wanted to put the context out there. with respect to obstruction of justice, which you said is something that should be taken extreme we serious at the federal level, official acts can be evidence of obstruction of justice, correct? mr. wray: i think that is a legal question that i will leave to the lawyers. sen. whitehouse: would you stop an obstruction of justice investigation that involved an official act or would you continue to investigate? the obstruction was also an official act. mr. wray: again, i would have to look at the loft, but my impression is that if we have evidence that suggest possible violations of the obstruction statutes, we would continue to investigate it until we raise conclusions. lawyeritehouse: and a obstructject can justice? absolutely. is up.te

i think that's very nice. >> i'm joined by democratic senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island.'re looking from vladimir putin's your top strategic goal in the region is to disrupt, degrade, and confound the atlantic alliance that has brought so much success and liberty to europe and to the united states. and nobody has done more to disrupt, degrade and confound the atlantic alliance than president trump. so in that sense, he appears to be following the putin playbook quite closely. >> what do you make of the geostrategic argument by trump allies that if there is some sort of breakthrough here for the u.s., and it is provable, it is verifiable that some kind of positive relationship would russia could help secure it, that putin is holding himself out as somehow a supportive player? >> well, if something can come out of the north korea negotiations, which is what i assume your question was about. >> yes. you know, that's a good thing. given the short amount of time that kim jong-un and president trump are going to spend together, given the lowering of expectations by the presiden

. >> senator whitehouse. >> director wray, thanks for sticking up for your organization. director horowitz, thanks for the thoroughness here. i want to go back on something that's been touched here. i want to hammer it home. there's prosecutors and investigators all over this country who look up to you, who looked up to director comey and who take a lesson from what they see. when i heard director comey have derogatory investigate ty information about an uncharged person, i was stunned. director comey, you said the rules about that are there for a reason just to make it perfectly clear, can i ask you what is the reason that we do not want prosecutors to be discharging derogatory information about uncharged persons? >> senator, my understanding has always been that the purpose behind those rules and norms is that prosecutors speak through charging documents and that the reason for that is because then the individuals who are charged have an opportunity to have their day in court and defend themselves. whereas the public states about uncharged conduct could afford that oppo

i thank the chairman. >> thank you, senator whitehouse. mr. rittig, would you tell me about the ucla scholarship fund. do you know anything about that? >> i will probably tell you about the vet count rule. >> we'll gladly listened. >> i created the fund through ucla for the purpose of ucla extension is the number two extension program in the world in terms of actual registrati s registrations. vet camp scholarship fund is intended to provide scholarships to active duty and veterans. you see reality tv where you see soldiers in a sandbag installation in iraq or wherever they happen to be and maybe playing videos games. and the intent of the account is to remotely through webcast or otherwise allow soldiers serving overseas in something like a sand bunker to actually earn extension credits in areas of finance accounting and such so that when they leave, if you've been a machine gunner on a humvee for three years and you have the gi bill, the ability to go to a college or university in this country and sit in a geography class might be a challeng

senator whitehouse, this is nonsense, this is flailing desperate nonsense. >> oh, i think it is. this would be great arguments if the year was 1750 and we were talking about king george. yeah, these arguments would hold some water. but thing really --? you look at this memo, and a rst year associate giving me this memo, i would have fired the person on the spot. these are just the weakest arguments that you would possibly raise. the idea that a president can't be subpoenaed. u.s. v nixon makes it very clear that the president, all people have to give evidence. >> yep. >> the paula jones case makes it clear just by virtue of your officend being pdent doesn't mean you have some special exception to being governed by the law. i mean, the supreme court has already ruled on almost everything that's in that memo. i don't see -- this was just designed as a promotional piece that they could use with the public to try and hoodwink them and as part of what donald trump does in his usual sales pitch on snake oil, this is just snake oil put into a different package. that's all it is. it's le

the south china morning post is reporting that the whitehouse has sealed a $1.4 billion deal with zteorts that nearly 60,000 drivers aged 75 and over were judged to possibly have dementia when renewing their licenses in the first year of stricter screening for elderly drivers. and finally the guardian is reporting that french school students are to banned from using their mobile phones on school grounds from september is how twitter question so keep those coming. with me is priya lakhani, founder of century tech. let's talk to you about the brexit story. let's talk to you about the brexit 5tory. two sides to every story. yes, they. theresa may having huge issues with david davis and the backstop approach to the negotiations and it fills in some papers like a victory and in others that brexit

whitehouse: thank you to both witnesses for being here. the topic that i would like to onee is a very specific that deals with sexual assault on college campuses. failure ofal for a proper coordination between the administrative response of the college and the law enforcement response that is required. i think the problems that we ine seen are usually based fairly good faith. in some cases, based on a concern that if you bring law enforcement into early, that the choices ofay my experienceried has been the contrary. my experience has been that when law enforcement is not brought and quickly enough, you then lose the opportunity for the collection of forensic biological and electronic evidence. you create a narrative for a later defense argument. exposing the victim to early cross-examination by the assailant's team to prepare for an eventual trial. that in theve context of domestic violence, we have seen incredible progress made between the community that represents victims and law enforcement over the years. in rhode island, day one is ou

the first official from north korea ever to visit the whitehouse ever to visit the white house hand—delivered kimjong—un to donald trump earlier this evening — and shortly after the president emerged to say a summit between the two leaders in singapore will go ahead as originally planned in just under a fortnight. in a hint of the negotiations behind the scenes, he said he believes the north korean leader wants denuclearisation, but also other things along the line. chris buckler has the latest from washington. the white house made a point of doing everything but ruling out a red carpet to welcome a former north korean intelligence chief. in the past the united states has accused the man of crimes including killing dozens the man of crimes including killing d oze ns of the man of crimes including killing dozens of south korean seamen. but today he was whisked through security to meet the president inside the opal office. and behind closed doors he was handed the much talked about letter from kim jong—un. they emerge side—by—side after more than one hour of discussion. a remarkable site given

i'll get reaction from senate judiciary committee member sheldon whitehouse.ur correspondents and analysts are also standing by. let's go to joe johns. what more are we learning about this lawsuit? >> the new lawsuit accuses the former lawyer for porn star stormy daniels of violating professional obligations he owed to her as a client, including the duties of loyalty and confidentiali confidentiality. it even accuses attorney keith davidson along with the president's old lawyer michael cohen of acting in concert against her. the lawsuit describes a codzy relationship between stormy daniels's former attorney keith david son and michael cohen, saying cohen colluded with mr. davidson in davidson. it includes text messages. cohen reaches out to davidson in an attempt to get daniels to appear on fox news to deny the affair. the texts start january 17th. the same day in touch magazine published excerpts of an interview in which stormy daniels described a sexual encounter with trump. cohen says, i have her tentatively scheduled for hannity tonight, so which davidson

and a any judicial ruling onti separation of migrant families increases pressure on the whitehouse aapitol hill to get comprehensive immigration reform approved. >> breaking overnight, man dies as fairfax county polic try to take him into custody.no what wew about why they were ahis housen the first place. >> and "x5" mor at 5 a.m. starts rights now >> and good morning to you. thank you for joining us. halfway through the week,

whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. may i ask also unanimous consent to speak for up to 15 minutes as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, a crash takes place in a system when conditions in that system reach a tipping point and the system rapidly destabilizes. climate change promises a lot of tipping points in earth's natural systems. ocean acidification, for instance, reaching a tipping point where species likehe pteropod have trouble forming their shells and populations of those species crash taking down the tropaic levels below them. polar warming releasing trapped mean from tundrayp accelerating the greenhouse effect. at the more local level, seasonally linked species reacting to changing seasons can get out of phase with one another so the feeder and its food source no longer overlap in time. and then they have a crash. in what pope francis has called the mysterious network of relations between things, climate change promises natu

the first official from north korea ever to visit the whitehouse hand—delivered a letter from kimjong—un trump earlier this evening — and shortly after the president emerged to say a summit between the two leaders in singapore will go ahead as originally planned in just under a fortnight. in a hint of the negotiations behind the scenes, he said he believes the north korean leader wants denuclearisation, but also other things along the line. chris buckler has the latest from washington. the white house made a point of doing everything but rolling out the red carpet to welcome a former north korean intelligence chief. in the past the united states has accused kim yong—chol of crimes and an attack that killed dozens of south korean seamen. but today, he was whisked through security to meet the president inside the oval office. and there, behind closed doors, he was handed that much talked about letter from kim jong—un. they emerged side by side after more than an hour of discussions, a remarkable sight given that last year their two countries appeared close to conflict. but after all that t

senator whitehouse. >> thank you, chairman. mr. secretary, welcome. i want to begin by echoing senator menendez comments about the imputed rural floor problem. unless that is corrected you will be creating a market shifting reimbursement cliff around rhode island differentiating it from massachusetts and from connecticut. we are not a very big state. so it really does not make any sense to undue what has been the status quo for years and we'll continue to try to work to make sure we don't create that anomaly. i thk we've h thi conversation before, but as you know, i think one can generally divide the pharmaceuticals market into three categories. one category is where there is a functioning competitive marketplace, the other category is where there is a legally approved monopoly, protected under patent law, for instance, and the third is where a company enjoys a de facto monopoly, there is not real competition, and it's in that sector of the pharmaceutical industry that i think we have seen the worst misbehavior. and my concern is that you get these co

senator whitehouse. >> thank you, thank you, chairm. thank you to both witnesses. ms. wen, thank you for coming back, and mr. crews thank you for your personal testimony. the topic i would like to raise is a very specific one that deals with sexual assault on college campuses. and the potential for a failure of proper coordination between the administrator response of the college and the law enforcement response that is required. i think the problems that we have seenha are usually based in fairly good faith. in some cases raised on a concern that if you bring law enforcement in too early, that risks taking away the choices of the victim. and my experience has been the contrary. my experience has been that when law enforcement is not brought in quickly enough, you can lose the opportunity for the collection of forensic, biological, and electronic evidence. you create a narrative for a later defense argument. and you risk exposing the victim to early cross examination by the assailants team to prepare for an eventual trial. i also believe that in the context of domestic

and a any judicial ruling onti separation of migrant families increases pressure on the whitehouse a capitol hill to get comprehensive immigration reform approved. >> breaking overnight, man dies as fairfax county polic try to take him into custody.no what wew about why they were ahis housen the first place. >> and "x5" mor at 5 a.m. starts rights now >> and good morning to you. thank you for joining us. halfway through the week, folks, wednesday, june 27. >> michael thomas, erin, talking weather and traffic. let's get the headlines. >> hi, guys, good morng, tracking chaps for showers and storms today. e g chance eveweek. won't be raining everyut min grab the umbrell awe need to this afternoon. >> all maim orr's are crash free one disabled truck not causing delays. take that 5 a.m. hour. >> the time no, i is head lines where aan died as police were trying take him into custody. the man suffered some sor of medical emergency as officers responded tol mission cal on alexandria court in alexandria. the man was 31. administrative and criminal investigations in the case are both underway.

. >> i don't dispute anything that senator whitehouse says -- that the senator whitehouse -- the .enate or white house says i don't want to separate and i don't see the past to do that as a repeal of the chair agreement. >> our nation would be well served if the president simply made a phone call, stop to this policy, put it on pause so that we could come together and arrive at a humane solution. i don't think the chairman is hardly supportive of supporting children from their families, but right now that's what our great nation is doing. we are destroying our image around the world as well as the individual lives of these families and children. perhaps the chairman could join us on calling on the president and call a cease-fire and a moratorium. >> it would be like my saying i want to encourage people of other countries to go to the extreme difficulty of going through very dangerous situations to put their children at risk. i'm not sure i want to encourage it when we have to face it, we have to deal with it. you, do you to ask think the administration would support repeal? >> that's on

until she answers it, the questions will continue and will be a cloud over the whitehouse. >> shepard: it would be weird if the lawyer for the president when speaking to the man that could subpoena him or couldn't says to the counsel something that could get him in trouble but wasn't true. i mean, help our viewers understand why it's important if the president, as his lawyers say, dictated that memo that it contained all of those arguably falsehoods. >> well, it's important because if the president dictated it and the statement isn't accurate and the president is saying it was about adoptions, the meeting at the trump tower was about adoptions when his son don jr. was trying to get dirt on hillary clinton -- >> shepard: from russians. >> right. >> shepard: from russians. that's what the lie was about. they were trying to get dirt on the campaign of hillary clinton's campaign from the russians who were in the room. they forgot that in the beginning. nobody mentioned that initially. then they wrote a memo saying it was about adoptions. and then saying no, it was about dirt on hillary cl

leading the earlier this month senators whitehouse and hatch in the united states senate. this bipartisan, bicameral legislation would mike portuguese citizens to get specific visas to allow -- to be allowed in a the united states. weigh do this with other nations this. will spur investments in our economy and it helps create jobs. 2015 alone, trade between portugal anti-united states reached $4.2 billion. and it's only growing. the act would strengthen this reciprocal economic relationship. one of our longest and strongest llies. strengthening the relationship that benefits both countries is the best way to grow economic, the economy, and increase the number of jobs in the long term, not trade tariffs. we have extended these strengthening the velasquezas before. in 2012 congress granted most recently eligibility to israel. our friendship with portugal and the contributions of hardworking portuguese immigrants in america are an important part of our country's history and heritage. portugal is one of the first countries to recognize the united states after our independence.

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the whitehouse sent talking points to republicans on capitol hill yesterday, the outrage over this was continuing to get louder and louder and they could no longer ignore it. they sent the talking points to the capitol hill, the staff members that they can't use because they were blaming democrt's something you have not heard from republican members. if they had a chance to blame democrats they certainly would, here they're not doing that because they realize that's mott -- that's not the problem here. it's administration, zero-tolerance immigration policy. much as the administration wants to blame it on democrats, or say because criminals are bringing children across the border, or saying it's a deterrent, none of those thing are true. we're expecting to see the white house fail to develop any kind of messaging strategy on this. either they're going to try to adopt something over the next few days because it doesn't seem the president is backing down off of this measure. >> let's talk about the possible strategy, okay, jonathan. this is what you're reporting. you said the president se

he was responsible for the stonework on sheldon whitehouse, and the bluecoat school. his involvement on the newcomen bank and royal exchange would suggest he may be one of the stonecutters that hoban references in his letter. in addition to this, his protege, edward smith, was the principal stonemason on the customhouse. it was constructed by hugh darley. smith went on to become master of the dublin society school of modeling and sculpture. to complete the circle, they were also involved in the dublin and hobanawing school would have undoubtedly crossed path with them during his stick -- paths with them during his study. is scanned and so is a further explanation of the working of ntemporary allowutters, which may insight into the exact nature of hoban's involvement in the dublin scene. is one of the stonecutters referred to by hoban as the collective catalog of work would suggest, his engagement in speculative tobin work is of interest. he is recorded to have owned and developed lots in parnell square, colin's place, williams street south, and the north wall. the con

when trump first heard people speaking spanish in the whitehouse, he frantically pressed the silent alarmn under his desk. [ laughter and applause ] "what's going on? that sounds great. that sounds great." actually i think trump was a a little confused when the king asked him if he wanted to go to a tapas bar. trump was like, "yes, just don't tell melania. is it totally topless? [ laughter and applause ] and bottomless too?" did you guys see this? today megyn kelly interviewed dennis rodman on her show, and rodman talked about what he does with kim jong-un when they hang out. watch this. >> what do you guys do together? >> we basically have fun. we go to, like, his private island. you know, we go jet skiing, we go snowmobiling, we skiing. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: sounds like dennis rodman and kim jong-un were contestants on "the bachelorette." i mean, i have seen that episode. [ laughter and applause ] i've seen that episode. later rodman talked about something else he likes to do with kim. check this out. >> we sing karaoke. he try to sing -- he tried to sing james brown. i started singing

. >> senator whitehouse.avid: john kennedy from louisiana, always putting, pretty straight arrow as far as questioning people like the inspector general horowitz who you see there, and saying very openly that there have been problems in the past with releasing information because it was highly classified. he is saying they're going to go the distance trying to make that stuff available now. that is good news. melissa: also him, reading one of the texts, i am so stressed about what i could have done differently. this is an fbi agent after the election. what they could have done differently to stop this from happening. it is really astonishing, it is really distressing, upsetting, that is the point he was trying to drive home. david: we'll have more after this. man: i got scar tissue there. same thing with any dent or dings on this truck. they all got a story about what happened to 'em. man 2: it was raining, there was only one way out. i could feel the barb wire was just digging into the paint. man: two bulls

. >> it gets to something sheldon whitehouse said where he said he thinks these very broad claims being made by the president and his legal team are out of weakness as opposed to strength. i wonder what you think, glen. >> it's definitely a position of weakness. what the president is trying to do is muddy the waters what is right and wrong but also win in the public so that you don't have to really win in the could yours. he's trying to win the public's perception of what the investigation is and what its results are by essentially tarnishing is throughout the process. the longer he delays this entire process, the longer he evades sitting down for an interview, the more time he has to go after the sources, the witnesses, you know, the claims that are being made there, and go individually to each one and try and create a conspiracy. i think it's a public management strategy. i don't think it's a good legal strategy. it might work in the sense he has won a lot of support to his favor by going to the public by speaking to the public and mostly through his social media feeds. >> at least sp

i'll see you back here monday for "deadline: whitehouse" at 4:00 p.m. >>> manafort goes to jail. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. tonight president trump's former campaign chairman, paul manafort, is in federal custody and will spend the remainder of his days pending trial in jail. already facing multiple counts of bank fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering, paul manafort arrived at a d.c. courthouse this morning pleading not guilty to new federal charges of witness tampering. the judge in the case then ultimately ruled that the severity of the alleged crime violated the terms of manafort's bail agreement, saying that allowing his release would, quote, harm the integrity of the justice system. nbc news reports that manafort did not appear to react to that ruling. he was then immediately taken into custody, giving a quick wave to his wife as he was escorted from the courtroom. manafort will now be held in pretrial detention until september. reacting to the news, manafort's former client, president trump, was quick to defend his r

i'll see you back here monday for "deadline: whitehouse" at 4:00 p.m. >>> manafort goes to jail.>>> good evening. i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. tonight president trump's former campaign chairman, paul manafort, is in federal custody and will spend the remainder of his days pending trial in jail. already facing multiple counts of bank fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering, paul manafort arrived at a d.c. courthouse this morning pleading not guilty to new federal charges of witness tampering.